Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank. That gap is a demotion / penalty signal, but it is not exclusively moderator action: flags, the anti-flamewar algorithm, and moderator penalties may all contribute. Stories marked [flagged] on HN are omitted. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News ranking adjustments work. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)

×6.10 85 #90 | 191 points by mpweiher 4 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation' (torrentfreak.com)

×2.58 63 | 90 points by WesleyGrant782 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again (cnn.com)

×6.93 55 | 79 points by dxs 8 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages (indiatoday.in)

×4.05 50 | 74 points by healsdata 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)

×5.66 47 | 75 points by ck2 9 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic (assemblee-nationale.fr)

×4.81 45 | 95 points by helloplanets 11 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance (arkm.com)

×6.54 39 | 1752 points by Tiberium 2 days ago | 1243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source (sourceforge.net)

×2.09 77 | 21 points by torcete 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)

×3.17 67 | 14 points by hnisjafx40 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them (signoz.io)

×3.87 30 #83 | 644 points by dorianniemiec 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech (house.gov)

×5.38 29 | 655 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions (cyberplace.social)

×6.18 24 | 655 points by dsr_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence (reddit.com)

×4.72 30 #65 | 34 points by LLcolD 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (wsj.com)

×9.17 23 | 178 points by timr 19 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Casio Watches of the 1980s (casio.com)

×2.60 23 #31 | 194 points by karagenit 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic (reuters.com)

×2.53 35 | 6 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) (acm.org)

×1.94 24 #37 | 69 points by the-mitr 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (science.org)

×4.88 19 #26 | 780 points by input_sh 12 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shiny Object Syndrome (wikipedia.org)

×1.80 19 | 64 points by janisz 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (talosintelligence.com)

×2.16 20 #32 | 223 points by khalidkhair 8 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging (openai.com)

×4.21 62 | 6 points by Zariel 40 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn (cairoreport.org)

×2.17 20 #39 | 54 points by entryleveljobsc 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)

×6.95 35 #38 | 67 points by firesteelrain 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (fz-juelich.de)

×2.48 46 | 4 points by rendx 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on (nasa.gov)

×1.88 16 #36 | 81 points by geox 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering (tomshardware.com)

×3.40 12 #63 | 58 points by gloxkiqcza 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Report from the Vatican (garymarcus.substack.com)

×1.65 19 #59 | 9 points by chmaynard 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic: Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment of Chats (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)

×3.32 16 | 7 points by cft 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get (pluralistic.net)

×2.15 12 #42 | 48 points by beardyw 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
elect.horse (elect.horse)

×2.84 9 | 552 points by solarist 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man (bostonglobe.com)

×3.66 9 #69 | 369 points by apress 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com/jiahaoshao1)

×5.18 14 #20 | 83 points by pretext 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spooky C++ (nablag.com)

×1.84 28 | 3 points by nablags 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Winch – App Store optimization run by your own coding agent (getwinch.app)

×1.71 27 | 3 points by ziyasal 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)

×2.17 9 #34 | 177 points by fovc 10 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says (ft.com)

×4.02 8 | 322 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
He left 28 years ago, now after 36,000 miles Karl Bushby is almost home (bbc.com)

×1.94 25 | 3 points by tagawa 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode (ryanmadden.net)

×1.99 11 #15 | 134 points by ryanmadden 3 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Anthropic’s IPO Filing Actually Says (youtube.com)

×2.59 13 | 5 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The lithium hypothesis of obesity [video] (youtube.com)

×2.16 12 | 5 points by dakila5 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I post trained a model on Demoscenes (datavorous.com)

×1.12 6 #29 | 39 points by datavorous_ 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVE-2026-98432: blocking the Linux TCP bug until Ubuntu and Red Hat ship a fix (getrff.com)

×1.46 11 | 3 points by natebc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Haskell processor running on an FPGA (bathtub-01.github.io)

×1.88 6 | 4 points by AriFordsham 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Homebrew 68000 computer with a PCI bus (maniek86.xyz)

×2.20 4 #74 | 15 points by andrewstuart 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will AI take your job? You have more agency than you think (vox.com)

×1.51 7 | 3 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alternativ to Miro Board (wytboard.com)

×1.45 5 | 3 points by herrlen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' (404media.co)

×8.29 2 | 289 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Scribd Breached

×1.95 2 #44 | 333 points by x______________ 19 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements (phoronix.com)

×1.25 2 #45 | 37 points by mikece 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao: Algebra helps us navigate hard realities by making them abstract (sciencefriday.com)

×1.45 3 | 3 points by digital55 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???